Reposted by kayLucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026these are the first (ever) two shipping MNT Reform Next open hardware laptops! going out this friday to Crowd Supply. 52243
kay @dogthoughts.link · 11/09/2026Deep clean, couple repaired traces, and a partial recap. The two slot Neo Geo has been repaired 2323
kay @dogthoughts.link · 11/09/2026I love seeing a yote when I'm biking home it makes my entire week. They are such perfect scrunklies 000
kay @dogthoughts.link · 10/09/2026This thing will even simulate distant waves crashing, always puts me right to sleep. It needed new potentiometers and a couple new caps, unfortunately the build quality doesn't seem that great out of the factory. It gets brand new Nichicons 010
kay @dogthoughts.link · 10/09/2026Fixing an old analog white noise machine, the Marsona 1200A. Modern white noise machines sound super tinny and just repeat the same recording over and over, you can start to notice it loop if you're laying in bed long enough. 2121
kay @dogthoughts.link · 10/09/2026There have been a couple of actual circuit bent consoles sent in to Vinny, an NES and a game boy. :3 very cool streams. I think he called them Hardware Corrupters. 121
kay @dogthoughts.link · 08/09/2026this thing smells like your grandma who has been smoking for sixty years but refuses to die 031
kay @dogthoughts.link · 08/09/2026a moot saw me fixing neo geos and was like "can you fix my two slot" idk buddy I'll try 242
kay @dogthoughts.link · 05/09/2026Its so good! I hope you enjoyed making it and are able to make more! 000
Reposted by kayTy ᯓ★ @lifeisonlynew.com · 04/09/2026My first full YouTube video is out now! Would make me a happy puppy it you took a watch :3 1115841
Reposted by kayAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4 10492262509
kay @dogthoughts.link · 30/08/2026You know you're getting desperate when the Neo Geos are in the garage sink 061
kay @dogthoughts.link · 25/08/2026every time I drive to work instead of taking the train the Transit Gods punish me with the most fucked up traffic imaginable 020
kay @dogthoughts.link · 19/08/2026this is why you OPEN SOURCE things! The ribbon cable on this PC ripped after a decade of use. The design files are public though, so it was trivial to just order another one from a board house. PC saved from the trash! 131
kay @dogthoughts.link · 17/08/2026Hey Bay Area residents: here's our San Jose Mayor, @mattmahansj.bsky.social installing a Flock Security camera to spy on us. He should not ever be allowed in any kind of public office, ever again. Get fucked, fascist. 150
kay @dogthoughts.link · 16/08/2026Whether or not you can run Linux on something is usually a question of the CPU architecture. x86, Arm, PowerPC, MIPS, etc. I am willing to bet that windows CE stuff ran on i386 hardware, you can compile a kernel for that. Not sure about PC104 000
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026More archival work. Hope there is some Amiga lost media in here 020
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026what kind of idiot would fix a PC that COULDNT run cringe gay Yuri visual novels 020
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026This is a Pandora 1GHz handheld Linux PC. Arm Cortex A8 inside of a TI DM3730 with 512MB of SDRAM. Its booting Alpine Linux with kernel version 6.20. Right now its all printing to a UART console. The cable for the screen ripped and I am waiting on a replacement 021
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/202670% of my computers are ewaste scores. So much is thrown away by companies up here in the bay :( 010
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026Maybe take a look at those, compile a kernel, load it in to an existing system, and start changing code and see what it does. It will take a while but you'll learn if you keep going 000
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love was where I got started, but that was a decade ago. Still a good read but a little outdated. The Linux Programming Interface is more modern but I haven't read much of it. 010
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026Linux kernel stuff is hard, and there's lots of strange lore that isn't really written down anywhere. Its a learn by doing kind of thing. I do a fair amount of stuff with Linux at my job, which is where I learned most of this. 100
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026Alpine Linux with kernel 6.20. Very lightweight, and good for a system I don't plan on using with a GUI 120
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026About a solid weekend to get it working. Uboot in NAND on this thing is ancient and has some quirks 010
kay @dogthoughts.link · 15/08/2026Alpine Linux with kernel version 6.20. Right now I'm just reading UART off of some test pads, the flat flex connecting the screen to the main board ripped so I'm waiting for JLCPCB to mail me a replacement (Pandora still has the original gerbers for their designs) 000
Reposted by kayLucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026but good news: MNT Reform Next assembly has started today! (i'm still in disbelief, this has been a looong way) 385
kay @dogthoughts.link · 14/08/2026Modern Linux boot on a 15 year old handheld PC! The Pandora has a couple more decades left in it! 2745433
kay @dogthoughts.link · 09/08/2026my website finally no longer sucks dogthoughts.linkdogthoughts.linkDogThoughts.linkelectric escapades of an internet dog 030
kay @dogthoughts.link · 09/08/2026the whole point of @defcon.bsky.social is to talk to people. the talks are lame. the workshops are lame. make friends. 011
kay @dogthoughts.link · 31/07/2026Has anyone ever archived a plushie before? I ripped all the lines that the Oneyplays Nostalgia Critic Plush says using a line level converter and a USB audio board. Full fidelity, nothing recorded with a microphone archive.org/details/oney... 061
kay @dogthoughts.link · 30/07/2026Probably not without a lot of work, I did try it and I ended up having to control it all with the touch screen 040
kay @dogthoughts.link · 30/07/2026The only upside of your scope being basically an android tablet with an analog frontend is that it can run DOOM 81458
kay @dogthoughts.link · 30/07/2026This was $10 at the flea market. I love digging in the ewaste of the bay area 030
